Shuffling

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuffle

(a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step.

(a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.

(v.) In a shuffling manner.

录入:威廉敏娜

• I says, frank and open--no shuffling, mind you, Captain! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• At last Mr Flintwinch came shuffling down the staircase into the hall, muttering and calling 'Affery woman! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• After that knock they heard a movement below, and somebody shuffling up towards the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr. Guppy, slightly nudging his friend to take another look, makes a shuffling bow to Mr. Tulkinghorn, who returns it with an easy nod. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Suddenly I heard the shuffling noise at my right, and, looking, saw another pair of eyes, evidently approaching from an intersecting corridor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A faint shuffling sounded behind me, and as I cast a hasty glance over my shoulder my blood froze in my veins for the thing I saw there. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At this juncture, shuffling is heard in the hall, and tapping is heard at the dining-room door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ten minutes had not succeeded the promulgation of this decree when Rosine's French pantoufles were again heard shuffling along the corridor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I will either be all or nothing to a man like Robert; no feeble shuffling or false cant is endurable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We turned down it, and as we went shuffling through the sleet, I heard the clocks strike half-past five. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• To be present at the election of a Protector, and to give our yea or nay for his shuffling Grace of----? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I shall let him off easily, you know, said Mr. Brooke aside to Dorothea, shuffling away very cheerfully. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

校对:普拉特